Soul Asylum and Meat Puppets on October 25 at 8 p.m.

House of Blues Houston

In a Nutshell

The raw-voiced underground icons behind “Runaway Train” and “Lake of Fire” join forces in the wake of their latest albums

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Soul Asylum and Meat Puppets

The legacy of Soul Asylum: forged in the fires of Minneapolis in 1981, the band went triple platinum with their 1993 album, Grave Diggers Union, and came around full circle with their 2012 release, Delayed Reaction

How AllMusic.com’s Mark Deming described that album: “their best in ages.”

Their sound in a nutshell: an ocean of rough yet infectious guitar riffs propelled by the rust-bucket vocals of Dave Pirner

Proof of Pirner’s Minneapolis cred: that’s him on the live-recorded opening of The Replacements EP Stink, yelling at police offers who are breaking up a party

What you might hear in the show: newer tracks such as “Let’s All Kill Each Other” and “Into the Light” along with the eminently hummable “Runaway Train”

The Meat Puppets in our words: sneering punk and country rock that resembles an amalgamation of ZZ Top, Neil Young, and Hüsker Dü

The Meat Puppets in their words: “real blown-out folk music,” which frontman Curt Kirkwoood said about their latest album, Rat Farm